Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Taking Back the Academy




I certainly think that the left has done a tremendous job in taking over public education, the media, the arts and the mass media. And because they are leftists, they never had to say please or thank you. They barreled their way in, pushing, shoving and whining.It started in the late 20s and 30s with the WWI pacifists, and the takeover is complete. 

There are few bastions of non-leftist thought in popular culture. 

Conservatives have books and think tanks, a few great web sites and talk radio, but little else in our arsenal at the moment that can influence the education of our young or popular culture. Though I am pessimistic about a turnaround, or any kind of "taking back", he makes a point that I know a lot of fellow travelers will recognize. 

Not that we are seek kudos, most of us write and blog just because we feel we have to try and make a difference: 

"At a dinner with a rare fellow conservative academic, my friend told me, "The hardest thing about being in this field is that we have to fight the human need for love and affirmation." 

"Rightists get lots of boos and little applause.  It is hard to report to work and not feel envious of the constant awards, blurbs, promos, kudos, endorsements, grants, sabbaticals, acknowledgements, ribbons, and gold stars that leftists give to each other for half-baked, lazy ideas.  Luckily, religious traditions have given us many tips on overcoming envy, one of the deadliest deadly sins.

"Unfortunately, the decline in didacticism corresponds with an unraveling family structure.  As American youth are getting fewer moral tips at home, they are also being force-fed loopy open-mindedness at school, which often backfires when they become adults and realize that Jesus's warnings about carnal temptations apply not only to the next world.  Alcoholics, selfish pleasure-seekers, drug addicts, lonely promiscuous people, and partygoers with shallow friends are bound to be fairly unhappy in this world, too. 

"As American youth are getting fewer moral tips at home, they are also being force-fed loopy open-mindedness at school, which often backfires when they become adults and realize that Jesus's warnings about carnal temptations apply not only to the next world.  Alcoholics, selfish pleasure-seekers, drug addicts, lonely promiscuous people, and partygoers with shallow friends are bound to be fairly unhappy in this world, too."

Food for thought.